Klan Member Acquitted Of Violating Mask Law

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September 19, 1991

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. — A jury acquitted a Ku Klux Klan member Wednesday of violating a state law against wearing masks in public even though he admitted wearing a KKK mask to challenge the law. Shade Miller Jr. of Calhoun was arrested in February 1990 in Lawrenceville after police saw him wearing full Klan regalia - white robe, pointed hood and mask - in what he said was a staged effort to test the anti-mask law. Gwinnett County Solicitor Gerald Blaney said Wednesday he believed the jury did not consider Miller's wearing of the mask to be intimidating or threatening since he wore it only to get arrested.